Through the Ages is a civilization building game. The goal is to develop your civilization, not to destroy other ones. Military strength is just one aspect of your nation, as well as population, production or science. It is up to you which aspect you will concentrate on, more or less, but you should not underestimate any of them while building your civilization.
Victory is achieved by the player whose nation produces the most culture during the game. However, there are many ways to produce culture: through religion, literature or drama, by building wonders, by utilizing cultural persons etc. Considerable amount of culture can be gained even via wars or aggression.
Originally announced as "Civilization: the card game" for Essen 2006, this game stirred up quite some interest. The designer publisher has intended this game to be a "CIV-lite". It has development, economics, war, and all the other elements you'll find in a civilization game, but in four hours play time.
Here is a simple flowchart of TtA for Chinese people who use Simplified Chinese and found the original sequence confusing.
Thanks for original author, LiouKen (PTT). I've just modified it...^_^
Here is a simple flowchart of TtA for Chinese people who found the original sequence confusing.
Thanks for original author, LiouKen (PTT). I've just modified it...^_^
pdf file. Print on 2 sides of 1 page and cut in half to have a play aid that fits in the box.
More info here:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/465811
Some of the features of Tom's solo rules:
- 2 player game, Player against Rival
- Rival is abstract, only counters and military cards
- Streamlined Card Row procedure, no dice involved
- Adjustable level of difficulty, to suit everybody's taste
For those of you who found the original rules confusing, here they are in an alternative format. Compiled by Barb Hawes. Please post comments and corrections here.
This file is for the updated version of the variant: see http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/468738/16-new-leaders-and-12-new-wonders-version-2/page/2.
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